About Me

My blog - The Learning Curve

Former lawyer, turned computer retailer and technician, turned native American flute maker, turned graphic designer, and web nut.  I delight in cats, raccoons, bluejays, dragonflies, and nature.  And books too. Coffee is essential, but nothing else that is too complicated or contradictory.

I once fooled a psychiatrist into thinking that I had adult attention deficit disorder. Go figure.

I grew up on the north side of the Ohio River in Southern Indiana, but I have lived on the south side of the river in Louisville, Kentucky for some time now.    

 

Truth about Barack Obama

U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) is a leading candidate for the Democrat Party's nomination for President of the United States. The purpose of this lens is to present the facts, to the best of my ability, on various issues regarding Senator Obama's...

Business card basics 101

Between the expensive custom business card layout of a professional graphics designer and an uninspired stock business card design shared by 30 or 40 thousand others, there is opportunity. The opportunity is for an average person to run a part-time b...

Beginner Guide to Amazon.com aStores

The Amazon.com aStore(TM) is a new marketing tool for Amazon.com Associates as of November, 2006, when the system was released from beta testing.  The aStore concept takes affiliate marketing to a new level, and it is amazingly simple to use.&nb...

A Few Weird Things About Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky was named after King Louis XVI of France, in honor of the assistance he provided to the American colonies during the War for Independence.  Thus, the name of the city is properly pronounced Louie-ville, the same as if it had...

Best Books about A Course in Miracles

This is just a sampling of the many books that have been written about, or obviously influenced by, "A Course in Miracles." Here you can vote for the books you like, vote against the books you do not like, or add books that have not been li...

Making Favorites Icons - Favicons

The purpose if this Lens is to give a basic outline of the steps involved in adding a Favicon to a website.  This Lens does not address all the digital graphic design issues involved in making an icon from scratch, except in the broadest terms,...

Bodacious business cards

Bodacious Adjective: 1. Remarkable; prodigious. 2. Audacious; gutsy. Adverb: 1. Completely; extremely. 2. Audaciously; boldly. Etymology: Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious. American Heritage Dictionary - 4th ed. Bold pl...